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  • Published: 15 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780307278999
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $36.00

The Ivory Grin



Another exciting entry in the Lew Archer series. Archer must contend with devious doctors, blowsy broads and psychotic mobsters as he tries to solve a series of gruesome murders. VINTAGE CRIME /BLACK LIZARD

Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever.
A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks the wayward maid to a ramshackle motel in a seedy, run-down small town, but finds her dead in her tiny room, with her throat slit from ear to ear. Archer digs deeper into the case and discovers a web of deceit and intrigue, with crazed number-runners from Detroit, gorgeous triple-crossing molls, and a golden-boy shipping heir who’s gone mysteriously missing.

  • Published: 15 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780307278999
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $36.00

About the author

Ross Macdonald

Ross MacDonald served as president of The Mystery Writers of America in 1965, received the Silver Dagger in 1964 and the Gold Dagger in 1965 from The British Crime Writers Association, and in 1981, received The Eye, the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Private Eye Writers of America.

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